The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Garamond Premier Pro
Adobe released Garamond Premier Pro in 2005, designed by Robert Slimbach as the successor to his 1989 Adobe Garamond. The project began in 1988 at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, where Slimbach studied Claude Garamond's original punches and Robert Granjon's italics, and the new family follows those hand-cut sizes closely: four optical sizes, five weights, 34 styles, with Central European, Cyrillic and Greek coverage. Set beside Minion Pro it is darker, tighter and more openly sixteenth-century in flavour. These free typefaces work the same old-style serif register without the license fee.
The closest font to Garamond Premier ProThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Display + body that work together
A grammar of empty space
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.
Editorial · Modern EB Garamond + Inter
Letters that hold their nerve
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Modern · Editorial Archivo + EB Garamond
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Common questions about Garamond Premier Pro alternatives
- Is Garamond Premier Pro free?
- No — Garamond Premier Pro is a commercial typeface from Adobe. Garamond Premier Pro is a commercial Adobe Originals family, licensed through Adobe Fonts with a Creative Cloud subscription or sold as desktop licenses through resellers such as MyFonts and Fontspring. The closest free alternative is EB Garamond, available on Google Fonts.
- What font is similar to Garamond Premier Pro?
- EB Garamond is the closest free match. Georg Duffner's open-source revival of Claude Garamond's romans and Robert Granjon's italics, drawn from the same sixteenth-century sources Slimbach studied. The closest match in letterform and proportion, though it ships in a single optical size and is lighter in colour than Premier Pro's text cuts.
- Can I use EB Garamond in commercial projects?
- Yes — EB Garamond is published under a free license on Google Fonts and can be used in commercial work. Confirm the license text at the source before shipping.